These guidelines are provided as suggestions for integrating Achieve3000 Literacy into your grading system. Grading decisions are solely the responsibility of each school.
Achieve3000® Literacy is pleased to offer differentiated instruction to support your existing ELA/literacy, social studies, or science curriculum. These solutions can be implemented alongside your other lesson resources and formative assessment tools. To help motivate and encourage students, teachers and schools often want to incorporate Achieve3000 Literacy student work into their grade book calculations in the form of a project or effort score.
Due to the differentiated nature of our lessons, we do not recommend using Achieve3000 Literacy multiple-choice activity scores alone as grade book component*. We do, however, support these guidelines for incorporating Achieve3000 Literacy lessons into your comprehensive collection of student work considered for grading.
* It is not optimal for students to always score 100% in Achieve3000 Literacy Respond step questions. Scoring this high on a consistent basis means that students are not being challenged enough to maximize their literacy development. Research shows that students gain the most when they work within their “instructional zone”—a range that is challenging but not frustrating. In our literacy solutions, this zone is a level of text difficulty at which students are able to score at least 75% on the multiple-choice activities. When students consistently score above 75%, the system automatically increases the difficulty of the text so they stay in their instructional zone.